My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air
- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
 
 
 
 
ZERO

Joanna Macy 'World as Lover, World as Self'
 
The idea of zero was first referred to by in verbal terms by Indian Mathematicians in early centuries C.E.
'purna' - full
'sunya' - empty 
'anata' - endless, infinity
"all numbers are virtually or potentially present in that which is without number...The beginning of all series being thus the same as their end" Ananda Coomaraswamy 
 
Still centre of the turning world - Tao Te Ching Chapter 11 'It is the space within that makes it useful' 

   Been There, Done That: Virtual vs. Ritual Repetition


What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from


Other rhythms contribute to the repetitious structure of our lives, albeit ones of which we are not always conscious our heartbeat/pulse, our breathing, even the pace of our walking creates a rhythm of repetition which carries us along our life's way.

Performative utterance, sedimented acts of repetition which form identity

STILL MOVING

 

Link to shared Research catalogue with Juriaan Achtoven - https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/330914/331723

 

 

Within stillness lies movement. 

 

 

The detail of the pattern is movement itself. 

 

TS Eliot